kinship group

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kinship group - group of people related by blood or marriageclan, kin group, kindred, kin, tribesocial group - people sharing some social relationmishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"folks - your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kintotem - a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic objectTribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel - twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacobrelative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"clan member, clansman, clanswoman - a member of a clantribesman - someone who lives in a tribe